(13991) Kenphillips Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 March 1993 by UESAC at La Silla.
Ken Phillips (b. 1946), a solar physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, works on the heating of the solar corona and x-ray spectroscopy and solar and stellar flares.Naming citation (20010509/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kenphillips is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kenphillips is 2.30 au from the Sun and 3.29 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13991 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 FZ6 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.52 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.05 |
| Orbital period | 3.72 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.40 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.93 – 2.87 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.196 |
| Inclination | 3.29° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.915 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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